Introduction

Ethics Bites is a series of interviews on applied ethics produced in association with the Open University. Tim Scanlon has spent much of his career reflecting about issues of toleration and free speech. For John Stuart Mill the limit of freedom of speech in a civilised society was roughly the point where a speaker was inciting violence. But perhaps it isn't as simple as that for free speech doesn't entitle us to shout fire in a crowded theatre. Where then should we draw the line and why?